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====== Tips and tricks ====== | ====== Tips and tricks ====== | ||
+ | ===== Gordan' | ||
+ | Plenty of inspirational tricks including screen upgrade, overclocking, | ||
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+ | ===== Optimising power consumption ===== | ||
+ | [[https:// | ||
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===== Lid and jack insertion events ===== | ===== Lid and jack insertion events ===== | ||
You can use a lightweight https:// | You can use a lightweight https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Using side LEDs and WiFi LED ===== | ||
+ | The LEDs on the side can be triggered by echoing values between 0 and 7 to | ||
+ | echo 7 > / | ||
+ | for different blinking-patterns (need to be root). Try | ||
+ | echo 0 > brightness ; sleep 1 ; echo 7 > brightness ; sleep .2;echo 1 > brightness | ||
+ | to ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can also set different triggers for the WiFi LED. To see the available options do | ||
+ | cat / | ||
+ | then to change the trigger (temporarily) do for example | ||
+ | echo mmc0 > / | ||
+ | to get eMMC activity. | ||
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===== Video playback ===== | ===== Video playback ===== | ||
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===== Wireless performance ===== | ===== Wireless performance ===== | ||
- | * [[http:// | + | * [[http:// |
* '' | * '' | ||
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+ | ===== Wireless connectivity without NetworkManager ===== | ||
+ | Place this in ''/ | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) | ||
+ | auto lo | ||
+ | iface lo inet loopback | ||
+ | |||
+ | allow-hotplug wlan0 | ||
+ | iface wlan0 inet manual | ||
+ | wpa-driver nl80211 | ||
+ | wpa-roam / | ||
+ | |||
+ | iface default inet dhcp | ||
+ | |||
+ | iface home inet dhcp | ||
+ | |||
+ | iface wwan0 inet dhcp | ||
+ | pre-up stty -F / | ||
+ | stty -F / | ||
+ | pre-up chat -v TIMEOUT 30 "" | ||
+ | AT OK \ | ||
+ | AT+CGREG=1 OK \ | ||
+ | AT+CFUN=1 " | ||
+ | "" | ||
+ | AT*ENAPDBG=1 OK \ | ||
+ | ' | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | ! chat -v "" | ||
+ | post-down chat -v "" | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | This assumes your card has PIN disabled, if it's not, you should be able to add '' | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | #!/bin/sh | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | </ |
tips_and_tricks.txt · Last modified: 2013/02/15 17:13 by turbooster